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The mascot of the Mastodon social network. Mastodon is an open source, self-hosted, social networking service. Mastodon uses the ActivityPub protocol for federation which allows users to communicate between independent Mastodon instances and other ActivityPub compatible services. Mastodon has microblogging features similar to Twitter, and is ...
Mastodon's advocates say its decentralised approach makes it fundamentally different: rather than go to Twitter's centrally-provided service, every user can choose their own provider, or even run ...
Instances hosted by different social networking services may communicate with one another as well. A user on the microblogging platform Misskey, for example, may view and interact with posts made by users on Mastodon. Some Fediverse networks even allow users to interact with different social networking formats from the same platform.
With Twitter in disarray since the world's richest person took control of it last week, Mastodon, a decentralised, open alternative from privacy-obsessed Germany, has seen a flood of new users.
ActivityPub has become the main standard used in the fediverse, a popular network used for social networking that consists of software such as Mastodon, Pixelfed and PeerTube. [ 3 ] ActivityPub is considered to be an update to the ActivityPump protocol used in pump.io , and the official W3C repository for ActivityPub is identified as a fork of ...
STORY: The mammoth-branded social network is seeing a surge in new signupsMastodon was founded five years ago by German programmer Eugen RochkoIt looks much like Twitter, with short posts often ...
Everyone fed up with Twitter is heading over to Mastodon, a new social media app.
Eugen Rochko (Russian: Евгений Рочко, romanized: Yevgeniy Rochko; born 22 January 1993 [1]) is a German software developer, best known as the creator of Mastodon, a decentralized open-source social networking platform consisting of a large number of independently run nodes, known as instances, each with its own code of conduct ...